Great news. I've been accepted to attend a two-month artist residency at The Quarry at Contemporary Arts International in Acton, MA for 2018. My tenure there will be split between one month in the spring (May-June) and another in the fall (Oct-Nov) with the exhibit being in Nov.

My plan is to create ten large pieces similar to the one to the left. Except that I won't be doing silhouettes. Instead, I'll be painting colored squares or stripes as a background and putting the minimalist charcoal drawings seen below on top of the colors. I may keep the minimalist drawings black, or I may change the colors. I'm not sure yet as that is going to require more research. Other colored examples are below as well.​Still, this is yet another great opportunity, and your support helps to make that time away from work possible, so thanks!

I recently did a residency in Lisbon, Portugal, and while there I met the other artist-in-residence, Daniel Gawronski. Daniel is an Australian artist who works primarily with sound art. His method is very interesting in that he takes images from the natural environment and uses those to map musical compositions.

​In this piece, Gawronski used a photograph of trees from a forest outside Lisbon, Portugal to create the scale. Trees that were close represented low notes and trees that were in the distance represented high notes. The distance between the trees represented the length of time the note would be carried.He then took samples of Lisbon Fado singer Amalia Rodrigues' work and plugged these samples into the scale to create the actual sounds.

The video was created based on a reductivist approach and was filmed at the Zaratan Arte Contemporanea artist-run gallery in Lisbon, Portugal.

The three elements of approach to the video give it a simplistic description of the natural art scene in Lisbon, and is very local in nature.

This represents my first time doing a collaborative serious piece, and it was interesting how it all played out. I didn't sit down to work collaboratively with him. It just happened, and that's what happens when you spend time with other artists. Eventually simple conversation turns collaborative art.